Awareness

by DE MELLO, ANTHONY

• ISBN13: 9780385249379
• ISBN10: 0385249373
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1990-06-01
• Publisher: Image

Summary

Using humor, compassion, and insight, the beloved and best-selling Anthony de Mello teaches us to welcome the challenge of knowing ourselves and living the "aware" life.

Author Biography

Anthony de Mello was a Jesuit Priest known throughout the world for his writings and spiritual conferences. He died suddenly in 1987. Among his many books are Sadhana and The Song of the Bird. J. Francis Stroud, the editor of Awareness, is a Jesuit priest who worked closely with Anthony de Mello.

Table of Contents

Foreword	3	(2)
On Waking Up	5	(1)
Will I Be of Help to You in This Retreat?	6	(3)
On the Proper Kind of Selfishness	9	(1)
On Wanting Happiness	10	(2)
Are We Talking About Psychology in This Spirituality Course?	12	(3)
Neither Is Renunciation the Solution	15	(1)
Listen and Unlearn	16	(3)
The Masquerade of Charity	19	(7)
What's on Your Mind?	26	(4)
Good, Bad, or Lucky	30	(1)
Our Illusion About Others	31	(4)
Self-observation	35	(2)
Awareness Without Evaluating Everything	37	(5)
The Illusion of Rewards	42	(1)
Finding Yourself	43	(3)
Stripping Down to the ``I''	46	(4)
Negative Feelings Toward Others	50	(3)
On Dependence	53	(3)
How Happiness Happens	56	(6)
Fear-The Root of Violence	62	(1)
Awareness and Contact with Reality	63	(1)
Good Religion-The Antithesis of Unawareness	64	(9)
Labels	73	(1)
Obstacles to Happiness	74	(4)
Four Steps to Wisdom	78	(6)
All's Right with the World	84	(2)
Sleepwalking	86	(4)
Change as Greed	90	(5)
A Changed Person	95	(4)
Arriving, at Silence	99	(4)
Losing the Rat Race	103	(3)
Permanent Worth	106	(2)
Desire, Not Preference	108	(3)
Clinging to Illusion	111	(3)
Hugging Memories	114	(5)
Getting Concrete	119	(7)
At a Loss for Words	126	(3)
Cultural Conditioning	129	(4)
Filtered Reality	133	(4)
Detachment	137	(3)
Addictive Love	140	(2)
More Words	142	(2)
Hidden Agendas	144	(3)
Giving In	147	(1)
Assorted Landmines	148	(2)
The Death of Me	150	(2)
Insight and Understanding	152	(4)
Not Pushing It	156	(1)
Getting Real	157	(2)
Assorted Images	159	(2)
Saying Nothing About Love	161	(1)
Losing Control	162	(2)
Listening to Life	164	(2)
The End of Analysis	166	(3)
Dead Ahead	169	(3)
The Land of Love	172